Abstract

MENDOZA GARCIA, Jorge. The Narrative Form of Collective Memory. Polis [online]. 2005, vol.1, n.1, pp.9-30. ISSN 2594-0686.

The memory has a narrative structure. Their contents and manners show it. By recapturing the positions of founders’ of the perspective of the collective memory (Halbwachs, Blondel, Bartlett and Vygotsky), and by meditating from the postulates of Bruner, the present work argues that the memory, even the one denominated singular, is built for example on the base of narrations you/they do constitute the forms of speeches and ways of organizing experiences, the passings which are culturally endowed with meaning, and what to be intelligible to the person, group, society or collective to the one who you/they are presented to express it in logical stories that show the verisimilitude of what is remembering or relating. Certainly, in the daily life we find a quantity of narrations about the collective experiences, we find “narrators of histories”, and like it happens in the literature it only is not worthy what is counted but how it is counted. As well as there are conventions of ideas about the reality, for the narratives: there are also narrative models that make more realistic a narration to exist than another. Such narrations endow from sense to the world.

Keywords : Collective memory; narrative; story; meaning; sense; social frames; outlines.

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